that they charge 12 dollars postage for a CD, which then turns up in a fucking jiffy bag and is damaged. I resent that they charge 30 dollars for vinyl postage. I resent that they deliberately release vinyl months after the CD because they know 75% of their regular customers want the albums they release on vinyl. I just don't think it's a particularly admirable way to run an independent record label.

everyone was stood around waiting for me to fuck off so they could close up and go home, the guy says "right, you've got two pounds left", so in a rushed haze i grab them off the bargain shelf, having never heard a note of either. Bad move

And mad props to the guy who took my CDs for exchange. The normal dude usually just says "nah, nah, nah, got too many, nah, slight mark on the cover, nah". Bellend

really is wonderful, isn't it? I listened to it again last night on big headphones, and thought "wow, this really is wonderful, isn't it?".
This is where you'll probably come back and say you bought it by mistake...

Good call, bought that CD in high school because of Not A Player, which wore out its welcome in a bout a week. But the rest of the songs are pretty solid. Great verse from "Punish Me" below, I still have it memorized (even though the chorus is straight up garbage). Super Lyrical and Tres Leches; a couple of my other jams from the disc.

I was the luckiest man on Earth, my wisdom was worth
any purse but had a curse that hurt worse than givin birth
My first verse explains some of the game she was playin
I'm blamin myself cause in my wealth was her pain would haven
Behavin like a money hungry hooker, funny how the money took her
from a average honey to a stunning looker
I look back and reminsce how we used to kiss
and smash hips in the GS I bought her last Christ'
She got too big for her britches but The Britch is Over
Not the one in Queens I mean the one she dreamin wasn't sober
Told her how I felt, gassed me when she cried for help
Supplied the guilt trip and I was whipped without a fuckin belt
I felt stupid Cupid struck me with a poison arrow
Shoulda drowned ya when I found ya crushin in my boy's Camaro
I didn't bother but you probably find your lover dead
You robbed me of my honor, you ain't shit like my mother said

but it' really, really, really amazing. I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that though. There's a Reich 5 disc boxset which is really tempting me at the moment as I have no idea where to start with the rest of his discography.

Visual Offence - Assault
Faintest Idea - Put Your Mouth Were The Money Is
Volunteers - Doesn't Make You Punk
Various Artists - Music By People Who Drink Cider In The Gutter
El Fupa - El Fupa
I.C.H. - You Won't Like It (yet to arrive)

Had I not banned myself from Ebay I'm sure there would have been a few Man Or Astroman, Earth, Venetian Snares and/or Sunn O))) records there too. A wise choice?

there was just one, the packaging was an old LP sleeve inside out with a small print on the front, and then the rough trade label had a guys name on it and a phone number, all a bit odd. its nice though, not ground breaking or really like their other records.

but I was sent their newest one to review a few weeks ago and it's lovely, which was what prompted me to pick up Field Rituals. I'll definitely pick up Sewn once my bank balance recovers...I decided to pre-order the new Dalek and Six Organs records today, so that really is it for a couple of months now.

This is my favourite bit:
"But their approach, in all its old-school obstinacy, refuses to engage in the sort of discourse that mobilizes and uplifts us these days: where are the first-person stories, the ad hominem indictments, the postmodern self-doubt? Where’s the insight into gang territoriality, the refutation of crack-slinger economics, the proof of allegiance to a real live community? What good are gutter tactics when niggas got G5s now up in the PJs? To and for whom are Dälek preaching?"

However it doesn't quite beat Stewart Voegtlin's review of the new Ofermod record in which he genuinely describes the band as a "horde that espouses propagandistic intent along with a sort of demented Malthusian weltanschaunng".

Putting aside for a second the fact that he can't spell Weltanschauung, the sentence itself is so the type specimen for pseud nonsense it enrages me in quite a unique way.

which is out in Feb or March, I think. I missed the boat on Mountains x 3 too, but Choral is pretty special. As much as I hate the term, it's quite psych-folk; there's quite a bit of organic and acoustic instrumentation mixed in there and it's just sounds really warm and inviting.